Refrigerator ice-rack



(N Model.)

G. W; LAWRENCE.

RBFRIGBBTOR ICB RACK.

Patented July 1v1, 1893.

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TATEs GEORGE LAWRENCE, OE EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN.

REFRIGERATOR ICE-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part ofv Letters Patent No. 501,281, dated July 11, 1893.

Application filed September 13, 1892. Serial No. 445,755. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. LAWRENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eau Claire, in the county of Eau Claire and State of Wisconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Refrigerator Ice- Racks, which is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I represents a vertical sectional view of the ice-rack in the ice-chamber of the refrigerator; Fig. 2, a top plan view of the icerack, with a portion of the corrugated center piece out away; Fig. 3, a bottom plan view of the ice-rack; and Fig. 4, a sectional view, taken at the line 4 4, Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to make an ice-rack for refrigerators which will admit of the water passing away from the ice as fast as the ice is melted, and at the same time admit of a free circulation of the air through the ice and ice-rack to the cooling chamber.

My invention consists in the special construction of the ice-rack hereinafter fully set forth and made the subject matter of the claim herein.

To enable those skilled in the art to understand how to make and use my invention, I proceed to describe the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings A represents the walls of the refrigerator; B, the top thereof; C, the ice-chamber, all of which may be constructed in any of the well-known ways of constructing refrigerators.

D, represents pieces constituting the main frame of the ice-rack,which I preferably make of wood, but which maybe made of any suitable material, each made substantially in the shape clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. These pieces have slots E cut in their upper edges and also inclined slots, F, in their sides.

G, are galvanized metal beams with their edges doubled down, resting in the slotsE in the upper edges of the frame-pieces D. These metal beams are made very strong by their edges being turned down and doubled back upon themselves as clearlyshown in Fig. l of the drawings.

H, is a metal corrugated center piece, also secured to the pieces D by its edges being turned down and passing into slots E on the face of the supporting pieces D.

I, is a metal plate extending across the icerack under the corrugated metal center piece H, to receive and carry away any condensation that might form on the under side of the corrugated metal center piece II.

J, are metal aprons that are held in place by the grooves F in the sides of the pieces D. They have on their edges shoulders K-K, which strike against the ends of the slots F and determine their position in the ice-rack. The opening Lin the bottom of the ice-chainber is less than the space between the dripV aprons J and there is a flange, M, turned up around that opening to prevent any of the drip from passing through the opening into the cooling-chamber below. The corrugated center piece H which extends across the icerackV is wider than the opening L, so that there can no drip pass through the opening L from the ice-rack. The plate I under the corrugated center piece H is also sufficiently wide to prevent any condensation from falling from the under side of the corrugated center piece H, through the opening L. The drip aprons .I are stamped from metal plates in the form shown, and inserted in the grooves in the pieces D, but may be supported on the sides of ythe pieces in any well-known way. The galvanized metal beams G are formed up in the shape shown and pressed into the slots cut in the upper edge of the pieces D. Their construction is such that they are very strong, and are not readily bent and depressed so as to hold water, as is frequently the case with a metal bottom extending nearly the size of the ice-chamber. The pieces D restl upon the bottom of the ice-chamber at or near each end.

I have a very strong ice-rack, and one from which the water passes as fast as the ice melts, and at the same time the air circulates both above and below the drip aprons and the metal beams, and passes readily to the cooling-cham ber of the refrigerator without any drip, either from the ice or from condensation, passing with it. I have put a large number of my ice-racks into practical use, and iind them very substantial and satisfactory.

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Having fully described my invention, what beams G having turned over edges to fit into I claim, and desire t0 secure by Letters Patthe cross-grooves on the top of the rails or ent, is pieces D; and the corrugated center piece H The ice-raek for a refrigerator, consisting extending across the rack over the opening 5 of the rails or pieces D furnished on their between the drip aprons J, all as specified I5 sides with grooves to receive the drip aprons and shown.

and with slots out in their upper edges to re- GEORGE YV. LAWRENCE. ceive the turned over edges of the metal cross- Vitnesses: beams; the drip aprons J fittingin the grooves BURT E. DEYO,

zo on the sides of the rails or pieces D; the metal J. D. R. STEVEN. 

